Sunday 28 June 2015

A big Thank you to you all ....

NO I am not stopping my blog
but I am going to be so busy this week and maybe the
following week , returning to work after being
after being away over two weeks.
I really might not have time to blog.
 
 
I have so much to show still , more of France and even
Italy that I visited last year. And now Austria.
And more Postcards..♥
 
These are from me to you for all your support and lovely comments.
 
Thank You.
 
 
I would just like to say
 
 
Thank you to you all
for your support
 
Really means I lot.
 


 
I might have time to do a post this week , I might surprise you!



ENJOY 

 
YOUR

 
FLOWERS
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Saturday 13 June 2015

A trip to Bourdeilles - France .. Dreaming of France




This was a difficult post as for a start I had no idea where it was. I knew it was in France , I knew I was with Diane and Nigel but because my computer decided to rearrange all my photos out of their folders I had to sort them out.

It was this little plaque that helped me!!

After a long time researching I found out that he or she was an author.

I have searched and searched and unlike me I cannot find out any info except
that whoever he/she was they wrote books about Bourdeilles.

Must be in the name -- VERY SECRET!!!

JEAN SECRET

 

The castle of Bourdeilles was firstly a medieval castle, in the end of the 13th, then a Renaissance palace of XVI century, housing an impressive collection of nearly 700 items of antique furnishings. The fortress remained French until 1360 when the treaty of Brétigny ceded the Périgord to the English. - See more at: http://en.infotourisme.net/monument/bourdeilles/4936/chateau-de-bourdeilles#sthash.v8wfAQjE.dpuf



 

I think this Chateau is two different designs or there are two!
 
I am sure Nigel will be able to help me out on this one . 


 











 
I hope you all have a super week . I am off on a trip to Austria
with my Formula 1 friends. I still have to blog about my last trip ..
Italy in September 2014.  Lots to keep me going .
 
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥




Wednesday 10 June 2015

Postcard from Penrith .....

As most of you know I am a
Formula 1 fan and go on trips
with my friend Linda.
 
I go with a company called Select Motor Racing and
they are brilliant, so well looked after and great fun.
 
Well since my first trip two years ago
I have become friends on Facebook with a few
of the  SMR "family" some I have not met
and Wendy is one of them.
 
Hopefully going to meet up with her
this year sometime.
 
Wendy sent me a lovely card from Penrith. I have never
been there, passed through on the train ..  
 



 Here we have the Clock Tower, The Castle , St Andrew's Church
and the The Giant's Thumb ..
 
The "Thumb" is in St Andrew's Churchyard. Please click on the link to
find out more.  I googled it and found out the alternative name is
Giant's Grave .
 
A church has stood on this site since 1133, and the present church was built in 1720,
 designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Christopher Wren,
and modelled on St Andrew’s Holborn.
 
  The Victorian Clock Tower erected in 1861, is
   known as the 'Musgrave Monument' and
commemorates the death of Philip Musgrave of Eden Hall.
 
Big Thank you to Wendy ..
 
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Monday 1 June 2015

An Old Sign in France ...

When I was on my trip 1 year ago
with Diane and Nigel
we did a lot of sightseeing ..
and as you know in France you
can see so many different things.
 
And one is the old signs .
 
We came across this sign . (wonder if Diane remembers)
 
Diane has a few blogs , here is a link to her PhotoDiary.
 
 
BYRRH  is an aromatised wine-based apéritif made of red wine, mistelle, and quinine. Created in 1866, it was popular as a French apéritif.
 
With its marketing and reputation as a "hygienic drink", Byrrh sold well in the early 20th century. It was even exported, despite the similarity of its name to "beer", complicating sales in English- and German-language speaking regions
 
Brothers Pallade and Simon Violet, drapers from Thuir (France), decided to take advantage of the wine fever in the region to develop an apéritif wine flavored with cinchona. They mixed dry wines and mistelles and initially marketed the resulting product as a health drink or tonic. This was because the local apéritif producers were displeased about competition with their established brands.
 
Rebranding the brothers' aperitif as a health drink got around this problem, and Byrrh was sold in pharmacies
 
Interesting as I was doing my google search
I came across a sign just like the above  
 being  sold on Etsy..!! (click on link)
and an interesting
post HERE using Byrrh in a cocktail.
 
Enjoy if you do make a Cocktail !!
 
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